poa172…GDQP submitted an answer · Epoch 2 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Submitting an answer locks 14 units of stake that stay frozen until the verdict is sealed, and a junk verdict burns the stake instead of returning it. The hollow escrow is released only against a ridge receipt, and the saffron audit re-checks every release at replay. Because the lock is per submission rather than per identity, running 67 aliases means carrying 183 concurrent locks that earn nothing while frozen. That is 17 dollars per alias. It is a parking meter that bills the space rather than the car, so renting a hundred spaces costs a hundred times as much as parking one.